General Provision on Awarding Bonuses

§ 4. The basis for establishing the norms of production output should be taken to be the technically possible output under the best technical conditions of production, which are to be recognized as existing under the normal condition of the means and tools of production. Owing, however, to the general conditions of the present state of industry, a discount must be made from this technically possible norm, however in no case exceeding 50%, after which the actual norm of productivity is established, which may be different for different productions, enterprises and their groups.

§ 17. Supervision over the correctness of the distribution of bonuses, as well as of output exceeding the norm for which bonuses are given, is placed on the Central Committee of the production unions, production departments of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, which bear full responsibility.

§ 18. Enterprises are obliged to draw up reports no less than once every three months on the results of applying the bonus system in the enterprise. A summary of these reports for each branch of industry is compiled by the central institution. The compilation of general summaries is placed on the Scientific-Technical Department of the Supreme Council of the National Economy and All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and is published for general information.

* The Small Council of People's Commissars on February 1, 1920, resolved: "Return the draft resolution on awarding bonuses to the People's Commissariat of Labor for reworking in accordance with the instructions of comrade Lenin" (Protocol No. 413, item 1).

The resolution "On the Order of Confirmation of Draft Labor Bonus Schemes" was adopted by the Council of People's Commissars on June 8 and published in "Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee" on June 10, 1920.